Footage filmed by a bystander shows Eric Garner being wrestled to the ground in a chokehold by an NYPD officer before turning limp. The father, 43, can be heard gasping 'I can't breathe'. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Protests have erupted in New York after a grand jury failed to indict the officer responsible

As protests into a chokehold death at the hands of the NYPD continue, Guardian US columnist Steven W Thrasher visits the 'scene of a crime that is not the scene of a crime' and looks ahead to a movement that isn't going to end anytime soon